Day: March 6, 2018

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

Andrew McInnis presentsa series of tone poems for solo guitar, mixing through and spontaneous composition borrowing from 12-tone and Lydian Chromaticism, inspired by recent travels through the high Andes of Peru, as well lucid dreaming, and lunar cycle meditations. Trumpeter/composer Raymond Larsen is known for his unique and spirited approach to the instrument. He will present new material with a surprise cast.

David Stout is a visual artist, composer and performer exploring cross-media synthesis and interdisciplinary approaches to hybrid genres bridging the arts. He is founder and director of the Hybrid Arts Laboratory at the University of North Texas. The Janus Switch v.2 (2016) is a digital performance work merging live cinema and electronic sound in a poetic exploration of generative audio-visual feedback structures.
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THU. 3/22 – New music multi-instrumentalist and rabble-rouser Peter Nelson-King presents the world premiere of The Magpie’s Shadow, a large-scale cycle of piano miniatures inspired by the poetry of Yvor Winters

SAT. 3/24 – composer/pianist Keith Eisenbrey presents the first 11 parts of his large-scale work-in-progress Études d’exécution imminent, including the complete Second Thoughts, Corollaries and the three sightings of Ghosting Doubles (after Amy Denio)

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Khost create an an unnerving and physically imposing sound. They first came to my attention with the album Copper Lock Hell released on Cold Spring. It was a forceful release of mammoth and colossal doom chords, deep bass tones and cavernous textures woven with a distinctive use of ethnic samples, ethereal voices and location recordings of the city scape and its vacant spaces and abandoned buildings. Tracks such as ’14 Daggers’ and ‘Revelations Vultures Jackals Wolves’ from the following Corrosive Shroud album easily show the inventive nature and uniqueness of the khost sound with their use of ethereal and indigenous samples and strings. Elsewhere elements of industrial noise and free-jazz nestle beside experimental electronics, massive sound shudders and rhythmic clatter. Both albums, as well as their latest album Governance, are unrelenting in their brutal and unflinching power.

Taku Sugimoto is one of the world’s pre-eminent avant garde guitarists. Over the last quarter of a century he has been a pivotal figure in the Onkyō, free improvisation and now Wandelweiser scenes, amassing countless releases with countless collaborators, as well over twenty albums as a solo artist or bandleader. His current work is primarily composed, quiet, lyrical and transparent.
japanimprov.com/tsugimoto

Minami Saeki is a singer, dancer and film actress from Nagasaki. She works in both experimental and pop music, with collaborators including Taku Sugimoto, Junichiro Tanaka, Wakana Ikeda, Masafumi Ezaki, Takashi Masubuchi, Manfred Werder, and Stefan Thut. Her filmography includes Village on the Village, Natsu no Musumetachi: Himegoto, and Ambiguous Places.
imdb.com/name/nm6836849

Mark Durgan has been active in the UK noise scene for thirty years, releasing records under his own name or as Putrefier for legendary labels such as Harbinger, RRRecords and Broken Flag. His music is carefully tactile, combining modular synths and homemade electronics with pressure-sensitive controls. Recurring collaborations include The New Blockaders, John Wall and Spoils & Relics.
markdurgan.blogspot.co.uk

Luke Nickel is an award-winning Canadian artist and researcher whose recently completed PhD focuses on the oral transmission of experimental composition. His work investigates notions of notation, re-performance, loss of fidelity, and memory. Collaborators include EXAUDI, James Saunders, the Bozzini Quartet, the Arnoflini Gallery, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
lukenickel.com

Josie Grounds is currently Bristol’s most diverse and unpredictable musician, capable of moving fluently between noise, wonky pop, stand-up comedy, improvisation, storytelling and DJing. Unifying these modes is her unerring feel for the absurd, subversive and fantastic. Other/former aliases include Himë Bangs, DJ Sarah Wilson, Twocsinak and An Unnecessarily Justified With.
himebangs.bandcamp.com